Editing Yondalla (section)

==Creation of the Halflings==
The [[Halfling]]s are amongst the youngest of mortal races in the world. They were created by Yondalla, who looked for a people to make her own. She found the [[fey]]: curious and full of life yet afraid of those bigger than them. She found the [[elves]], beautiful and graceful yet too slow to take action. She found the [[dwarves]], proud and dutiful to family but insular. She found the [[orc]]s, fearless but brutal (one of the few times in D&D history that anybody saw worth at all in the orcs). She found the [[human]]s, adaptive but warlike. While she saw good things in all of these races she also saw their bad parts.

Eventually Yondalla came up with a plan. She captured a [[pixie]] and channeled the essences of various races into them: the agility of [[elves]], the devotion to family of the [[dwarves]], the boldness of the [[orc]]s and the resourcefulness of [[human]]s. The end result was the first halfling. Yondalla took pride in her work, but the other gods were not amused. They claimed that because of her actions their chosen peoples had become less, and they agreed that Yondalla should be punished for her crime.

The punishment was twofold: halflings would never have lands of their own and would forever be on the road, living on their merits. Yondalla would also purge herself of her thieving streak so that only the pure good and virtue in her would remain. When these two things were done the gods were pleased and moved on. 

However, as myths are so prone to have happen, there are other versions of the story, and as usual none of the gods seem to give a rat's ass about setting the record straight: in other accounts, Yondalla simply ''stumbled across'' the halflings as an already-formed race and just decided to adopt them.